Men have it easier than women when large. Just a fact. We are "jolly", and women are, "Well, just look at her!!!"

It was little consolation to me though to realize, one sad day, that a Douglas Fir tree with my circuferance was 110 feet tall.

I never had much problem getting gigs.

On the very day I lost 100 lbs., we took a picture of me for an LP cover. The company needed a photo for the back of the album, so they took one from their file. The photo on the back was a hundred pounds heavier than the one on the front-----and I'm still glad that old album went out of print.

But I was always glad, if I was to be fat anyway, that I wasn't a woman.

Art Thieme